Army troops help enforce Covid-19 SOPs in the Saddar area on Wednesday. Reuters
KARACHI: The urgency of the safety measures taken for the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted routine immunisation of children in Sindh and it must be countered with a mass information campaign regarding vaccination safety and need, experts said at a webinar, debunking myths surrounding vaccination.
The event was organised by Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) with the Extended Programme on Immunisation, Sindh (EPI), says a statement.
The webinar titled ‘Myths and facts about immunisation during the pandemic’ was held as part of World Immunisation Week to address the myths and misconceptions about the Covid-19 vaccines.
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The elderly people and senior citizens are made to wait for more than an hour due to the slow process of vaccination. Faysal Mujeeb/ White Star
LAHORE: With record 107 Covid deaths in a day in Punjab, mismanagement at the understaffed vaccination centres in the province is adding to the woes of the elderly people.
A majority of the centres are understaffed and heavily crowded with people of 50 to 69 years of age.
The situation is disturbing at three mega centres of Lahore – Expo Centre Johar Town, Minar-i-Pakistan and the Pakistan Institute of Kidney and Liver Institute – creating potential risk of spreading the virus.
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Ghana is expected to receive another consignment of over 200,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in May this year.
The UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Health Systems Strengthening for Western and Central Africa Regional Office, Ms Susie Villeneuve, disclosed this, explaining that the vaccine would be shipped from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Ghana, Togo and the Comoros.
She said the development was because the DRC did not have the needed systems and structures to use the AstraZeneca doses it received under the global access (COVAX) facility.
At a panel discussion at this year’s African Vaccination Week (AVW) launch in Accra on Monday, April 26, 2021, Ms Villeneuve explained that the decision to ship the vaccines from DRC